Emma Hunter Rewrote Multicultural Indie Folk Mythologies with Her Debut Album, ‘Yolanda’

As a conjurer of land and era-mark spirits, every release by Oxford-based singer-songwriter Emma Hunter is an evocation of a panorama that distils colour, space and time. Magicians pull rabbits out of hats; Hunter is true to her name in how she prowls vast expanses for inspiration, before delivering a tableau of culture to ornament the architecture of her soul. With her debut album, Yolanda, she invites listeners on a time warping, monocultural mould-smashing sojourn, starting with the dark theatre of Sun Blood; a ritual of primal harmonies and staccato guitars that resonate within the atmosphere that’s rich enough to drink like wine, tasting the deep burgundy notes. Track two, Where the Roses Grow, tears through the arcane incantation of the opening single with a brashy, almost garagey burst of energy as Hunter’s harmonies swell in the unconfined aura of the track that swaggers, writhes and seethes. Track three exhibits yet another chameleonic shift as the instrumentals toy with the motifs of gothic aesthetics, taking the curvature of post-punk guitars and harbingeringly paced percussion and taking it further back than its original inception; Horizon Hunting is enough to write a new aural folklore as it toys with Lynchian timbres while […]

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